Name: Ian Van Horn Email: imvanhorn1@gmail.com
Lab 8 The Picoblaze Softcore
Task 1: Square Problem on SSD(30 points).
Figure 1-1: Edits made from textbook
Video 1-1: Demo
Task 2: Square Problem on SSD(20 points).
Figure 2-1: Case statment for LEDs
My first thought was to try to grab the binary values before they got
converted to the SSD pattern. However, that seems to be done in the
actual PicoBlaze processor. Instead a case statment is used to
back-convert the SSD to binary. This is nested in the always statment
where the SSD is written
Video 2-1: Demo with LEDs
Task 3: Square Problem on LCD(50 points).
Figure 3-1: Change to LCD code
Figure 3-2: Sample of part of the case statment
The majority of the lcd code was copied over from the textbook module.
To display the numbers on the LCD as case statment decodes the SSD
format binary number into hex, similar to the LED. The case statment is
long and is repeated for each bit so they are minimized in Figure 3-1
and a snippet is shown in Figure 3-2.
Video 3-1: Demo with LCD
Conclusion: Working thorugh the textbook to baysys 3 conversion was a
little confusing. The LCD incorperation went suprisingly well
